Crescent International Vol. 31, No. 11

Newsmagazine of the Islamic movement

Iqbal Siddiqui

Jumada' al-Ula', 1423 2002-08

Empowering Weak & Oppressed

Laila Juma

Jumada' al-Ula' 22, 1423

Book Review

After the strident and aggressive tone of much Western writing about Islam in the last few months, it is almost a pleasure to read this much more moderated, thoughtful and sympathetic study of Muslim politics. This is only partly because it was published in 2000, long before the events of last September...

Empowering Weak & Oppressed

Editor

Jumada' al-Ula' 22, 1423

Editorials

Israel’s attack on an apartment building in Ghazzah city on July 22, which killed Sheikh Salah Shehada and 15 other Palestinians, many of them children, was the latest in a long list of zionist atrocities against the Palestinians.

Developing Just Leadership

Yusuf Al-Khabbaz

Jumada' al-Ula' 22, 1423

Features

The Islamic rules and regulations governing the listening of music are among the most misunderstood in Islam. YUSUF AL-KHABBAZ discusses the issue...

Developing Just Leadership

Zafar Bangash

Jumada' al-Ula' 22, 1423

Islamic Movement

Last month, the Institute of Contemporary Islamic Thought (ICIT) announced that it is to hold an International Seerah Conference in Sri Lanka in October, two years after a similar conference in June 2000.

Empowering Weak & Oppressed

Nasr Salem

Jumada' al-Ula' 22, 1423

Occupied Arab World

War fever against Iraq has been growing in Washington and reached a peak that has not been seen since the Gulf War. The recent sabre-rattling issuing from America has led observers to speculate not about whether America will act against Iraq but when and how it will...

Empowering Weak & Oppressed

Zafar Bangash

Jumada' al-Ula' 22, 1423

Occupied Arab World

In an act of characteristic barbarity, the Zionists killed 15 Palestinian civilians in a missile attack on an apartment building in Ghazzah late on July 22. Among the dead were nine children ranging in age from two months to 15 years...

Empowering Weak & Oppressed

A Correspondent in Singapore

Jumada' al-Ula' 22, 1423

South-East Asia

Even as one of its most senior-ranking members faces the death penalty for crimes committed in East Timor, the Indonesian army has been unleashing a similar wave of terror in Aceh...

Developing Just Leadership

Abdar Rahman Koya

Jumada' al-Ula' 22, 1423

South-East Asia

Both Malaysia’s ruling coalition, led by the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), and the opposition Islamic Party (PAS) got shocks in by-elections in two constituencies left vacant by the death of Fadzil Noor...

Developing Just Leadership

Zawahir Siddique

Jumada' al-Ula' 22, 1423

World

Africa took a new turn on June 8, when the African Union (AU) was launched. Forty-three of the 53 rulers of the continent gathered to witness the birth of AU, which the rulers profess to hope will be a vehicle for democracy, good governance and prosperity.

Empowering Weak & Oppressed

Zafar Bangash

Jumada' al-Ula' 22, 1423

World

General Pervez Musharraf is not the first Pakistani ruler to believe that he has a divine right, not only to rule, but also to rearrange the political system because he alone knows what is best for the country.

Empowering Weak & Oppressed

M.A. Shaikh

Jumada' al-Ula' 22, 1423

World

The peace deal signed on July 21 by the Sudanese government and the Sudanese Peoples Liberation Army (SPLA), the predominantly Christian rebel group that has been fighting Khartoum for 20 years...

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